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How To Jailbreak iPhone 4

Dunn — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:16:43 +0000

Before I start, I want to wish everyone Happy New Year. Wish you all have a blessed year ahead. I got iPhone 4 as Christmas gift. I was so excited, as always, over a new “toy”. First thing that crossed my mind was jailbreaking it.

What is a jailbreak?

Jailbreaking is a process that allows iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad users to install any applications that available without having to make a purchase. A jailbroken i-device can still use the App Store, iTunes and other normal function. Jailbreaking doesn’t slow down the i-device or use any extra battery power. There are no risk for jailbreaking, as you can easily use iTunes to restore your i-device to the default factory settings.

There are two kinds of jailbreak, tethered and untethered. An untethered jailbreak allows the i-device to be completely shut off and rebooted without the use of a computer. On the other hand, tethered jailbreaks can not boot by itself. So if it happened that the i-device was completely running out of power and being forced shut down, the reboot would only be done with the use of a computer.
There are no advantages to a tethered jailbreak. It’s just that when the developers release the applications, the tethered ones come first, then the untethered. So if you don’t want to wait, you just have to go with the tethered jailbreak.

UPDATE : Untethered Jailbreak is now Available

How to jailbreak iPhone 4?

Since what I got is the iPhone 4 running iOS 4.2, this post is about jailbreaking the iPhone 4 running iOS 4.2 or iOS 4.2.1 using Windows. If what you have is another type of iPhone or iOS, you just have to download the application that suit with your i-device then follow method below. You can find several links for several i-devices in the bottom of this post.

WARNING: Do this at your own risk. I am not responsible for any problems that may occur as a result of following this guide.

By the way, if your iPhone running iOS 4.0.1 or older, you can jailbreak directly from your iPhone. All you have to do is visit JailbreakMe.com from your iPhone browser, then follow their steps. It only works with iPhone running iOS 4.o.1 and older.

Warning: Below is the guide of a tethered jailbreak and you need to worry plugging in your iPhone 4 to computer on every restart.

Before we get started, you have to download the following :

The process of all the downloads above will take some time. After finished the downloads, connect your iPhone 4 to the computer.

Upgrade your iPhone 4 to final build of iOS 4.2.1
Launch Redsn0w and click Browse

Select iOS 4.2.1 for iPhone 4

Click Next and Redsn0w will start preparing data to jailbreak the iPhone 4

Check “Install Cydia” and “Enable battery percentage” and click Next
Turn OFF the iPhone 4

Follow Redsn0w’s instructions to get iPhone 4 into DFU mode then wait until it finishes the installation. When it’s done, the iPhone will reboot, then you will have a jailbroken iPhone 4.

How to reboot a jailbroken iPhone 4?

If you need to reboot the iPhone 4, just follow the beginning steps above then check “Just boot tethered right now”

If after the jailbreaking you found Cydia in white icon, just reboot your iPhone 4. It would solve the problem.

And here are some options to download for other than what I used above :

Next check out How To Download Application After Jailbreak iPhone 4

Download and Play Games Offline

Dunn — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:53:03 +0000

I believe many people have been playing games online. I did. And some of them were very addictive that I would played it everyday and for hours. There are many interesting and fun games that you can play online for free. The problem is that you need internet access to play them. When the internet connection is down, there’s no way you can play.

So why don’t you just download it and play it offline? It’s easy :

Open the game that you’d like to download. Right click on the game and select “View Page Source”, or from the browser toolbar you can click View > Page Source.
Find the source URL that ends with .swf.
Copy the URL and paste it to a new tab or or a new window and press enter. If the start to load, you have the right URL. It might take a while to load.
When the file has finished loading, download the file by clicking File > Save Page As at your browser toolbar. The file should have start downloading the file to your computer.

You can open it with any web browser and play it without internet connection. Have fun.

Find Out Who Is In Invisible Mode In Yahoo Messenger

Dunn — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:08:52 +0000

Yahoo Messenger (YM) is one of the most popular instant messenger service. Most of people have YM for their business purpose or personal use only. You can have unlimited conversation with your family or friends, make a video call, send files or pictures, or get their updates from some popular social networking services. All those can be done if you already connected with them and they are in online mode. But sometimes if some of your contacts who appear offline, may not be actually offline They may in the ‘Invisible’ mode. Here are some ways to find out which of your contacts that use the Invisible Mode :

Open yahoo messenger and double click on the name of the person whom you want to check. The chat window will open. Click IMVironment button, select ‘See all IMVironments’, select ‘Yahoo! Tools or Interactive Fun’, and click on Doodle. After loading the Doodle imvironment there can be two possibilities:
- If the Doodle are showing “waiting for your friend to load Doodle”, that means the user is offline.
- If after few seconds (or up to one minute, depending on your connection speed) you get a blank page, that means the user is online but in invisible mode.
Double click a person you want to check to open the chat window. Invite the person for a voice conference. This is done by clicking on the “conference’ button on the top of the chat window. If the talk button appears and turns green then that person is online. But if you receive the message ‘Voice chat could not be started’ then the person is offline.

Alternate method is to use free services that available :

1. Invisible.ir

2. YahooStatus.ro

3. Yahoo-Status

4. Invisible-Scanner

5. 4invisible

6. Detect Invisible

7. IMvisible

8. BuzzU

9. Spy-Yahoo

10. Status Detect

11. Yinvisible

12. inviz.ro

13. yahoostatus.org

14. Ystatus

15. invisible yid

There are many reasons why they use Invisible Mode. They might be busy or they avoid to have a conversation with you. Despite whatever the reason are, we should respect that. If you found out that they actually are in Invisible Mode and you still try to send them a message, chances are they would block you which mean you could no longer chat with that person at all.

How To Make You Sound Busy When You Are Not

Dunn — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:23:28 +0000

There were times when you were sitting behind your desk in your office cubicle. All works are done, or you were just feeling too bored and need a break. Most of the times, you were just playing games online or surf the internet. You would just turned off the volume so that your boss wouldn’t know. But with the complete silence, it also would provoke suspicion. Cause most of the thing you do regarding your work, involve the computer. So you need little sound to give the impression that you are busy.

Idlekeyboard will help you to make you sound busy when you are not. This site plays a variety sound of keyboard typing and mouse clicking in a continual loop. All you have to do is just leave the webpage open, you can minimize it if you want, and adjust the volume to your personal typing style.

If you are playing games, most of the games, especially flash games, would come up with the sound. To mute the flash player, all you have to do is just download Flashmute. With only a single button on your tray, you don’t have to worry about flash sound in ads, movies or games. Just make sure not to walk away from your computer while the keys are rattling.

Amazing Way To Tie Your Sneakers

Dunn — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:10:13 +0000

I found interesting tips on how you can tie your sneakers with style. There are 15 ways, so you can change the way you tie your sneakers every day or every week. Try to play around with the color. I believe you will look amazing and people will ask you to teach them how.

The lace is run straight across the bottom and emerges through both bottom eyelets.
The laces then go straight up and are fed into the next set of eyelets up the shoe.
The ends are crossed over and are fed under the vertical lace section on the opposite sides of the shoe before going straight up and into the next set of eyelets up the shoe.
At the top set of eyelets, the laces can once again cross over and pass under the straight section as shown. This not only looks consistent with the rest of the lacing but also forms a High Lace Lock, which tightens the lacing even more firmly.

The lace is run straight across the bottom and emerges through both bottom eyelets.
The ends are looped back under the lace where it feeds under the side of the shoe.
The ends are then crossed over each other, then they go under and out through the next set of eyelets up the shoe.
Steps 2 and 3 are repeated until both ends reach the top eyelets.

The lace runs straight across the second set of eyelets from the top of the shoe.
Cross the ends over and feed into the fourth set of eyelets, skipping the third set.
Continue down the shoe, two sets of eyelets at a time.
At the bottom, run the laces vertically between the bottom and second from bottom eyelets.
Double back and work your way back up the shoe through the vacant sets of eyelets.

The lace is run straight across the bottom and emerges through both bottom eyelets.
The left (red) end is spiralled up the left side of the shoe, with the end fed under and emerging from each eyelet.
The right (orange) lace is spiralled up the right side of the shoe, at each eyelet looping through the left (blue) lace in the middle of the shoe before feeding under and emerging from the next eyelet.

The lace is run straight across the bottom and emerges through both bottom eyelets.
One end of the lace (orange end) runs straight up the right side, is fed into and runs straight across the second set of eyelets.
Both ends now run straight up the left side, each skipping one eyelet before feeding in two eyelets higher up.
Continue running both ends across the shoe, then straight up two eyelets at a time.
At the top of the shoe, the laces end up on the same side and the shoelace knot is tied at that point.

The lace runs straight across the bottom and the ends are fed into both bottom eyelets.
One end of the lace (orange end) runs straight up the right side, emerges from and runs straight across the second set of eyelets.
The other end (red end) runs diagonally underneath and skipping the second set of eyelets, emerges from and runs straight across the third set of eyelets.
Continue running each lace diagonally across and up two sets of eyelets until one end (orange as in the example) reaches the top right eyelet.
The other end (red in the example) runs straight up the left side to emerge from the top left eyelet.

The lace runs straight across and emerges from the third set of eyelets from the bottom.
Both ends run straight down and are fed into the second set of eyelets from the bottom.
Both ends again run straight down and emerge from the bottom set of eyelets.
Both ends now run straight up along the outside and are fed into the fourth set of eyelets (the first vacant pair).
The ends are crossed over each other, then they go under and out through the next set of eyelets up the shoe.
Repeat step 5 until both ends reach the top.

The lace is run straight across the bottom and is fed into rather than emerging from both bottom eyelets.
The ends are crossed over, then inserted into the next set of eyelets up the shoe.
This process is repeated until both ends reach the top eyelets and end up inside.

The lace runs straight across the bottom and emerges through both bottom eyelets.
Skipping two sets of eyelets, cross the ends over and feed into the fourth set of eyelets.
Both ends now run straight down one eyelet and emerge from the third set of eyelets.
Continue up the shoe, each time crossing over and going up three sets of eyelets, then straight down to emerge from the next set of eyelets below.

The lace is run straight across the bottom and emerges through both bottom eyelets.
The ends are twisted together with one complete twist in the middle of the shoe.
The ends then continue across to the opposite sides, where they go under and out through the next set of eyelets up the shoe.
This process is repeated until both ends reach the top eyelets.

The lace runs straight across the bottom and emerges from both bottom eyelets.
Cross the ends over and feed into the fourth set of eyelets up the shoe (skip past 2 sets of eyelets).
Both ends now run straight up and emerge from the fifth set of eyelets.
Cross the ends over and feed into the second set of eyelets up the shoe (skip past 2 sets of eyelets).
Both ends now run straight up and emerge from the third set of eyelets.
Cross the ends over, feed under and emerge from the top set of eyelets (skip past 2 sets of eyelets).

The lace is run diagonally and emerges from the bottom left and the top right eyelets.
The top (red) end of the lace is zig-zagged from the top set of eyelets down to the middle eyelets in a similar manner to the shoe shop lacing.
The bottom (orange) end of the lace is similarly zig-zagged from the bottom set of eyelets up to the middle eyelets.

Start with two pairs of different color laces, preferably the wide, flat variety.
With one color (orange in the example), lace the shoe using either Straight (Fashion) or Straight (Lazy) lacing.
With the other color (red in the example), start at the bottom of the shoe and weave the lace in and out of the other lace until you reach the top.
Fold around the top lace and head back down, weaving out and in until you reach the bottom.
Continue across the shoe until you’re out of room or out of lace, whichever comes first.
Tuck all the loose ends of the laces into the shoe.

The lace runs straight across the bottom and emerges from both bottom eyelets.
Cross the ends over and feed into the fourth set of eyelets up the shoe (skip past 2 sets of eyelets).
Both ends now run straight up and emerge from the fifth set of eyelets.
Cross the ends over and feed into the second set of eyelets up the shoe (skip past 2 sets of eyelets).
Both ends now run straight up and emerge from the third set of eyelets.
Cross the ends over, feed under and emerge from the top set of eyelets (skip past 2 sets of eyelets).

Take two different color laces, each a tiny bit longer than the correct length for the shoes.
Cut them not quite in half, but offset by two or three centimetres.
Tie one shorter piece of one color (orange in the example) and one longer piece of the other color (red in the example) firmly together and trim off the excess. For extra security, add a dab of glue. Use the remaining pieces to make the bi-color lace for the other shoe.
Pull the longer (red) end out through the bottom right eyelet, feeding from inside the shoe, until you reach the joining knot.
Now lace the rest of the shoe as per Straight (Fashion) lacing.

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Set Video As Your Wallpaper

Dunn — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:51:43 +0000

There are many ways you can do to maximize the apperance of your desktop. You can set your favorite picture as your desktop wallpaper, or you can use more than one pictures as your wallpaper using desktop wallpaper changer. But having a video as your desktop wallpaper, this is something that not everybody aware that it’s possible. Do you want to know how to do it? I found it in WinMatrix. Just do these steps as follows:

Download, install and run VLC media player
Go to Setting -> Preference -> Interface -> Main Interfaces, then click on wxWidgets.
Click on Advance Options, then uncheck the Taskbar and check on Systray Icon.
Go to Video -> Output Module -> DirectX.
On the bottom right corner, check the Advanced Options in order to see all the settings available.
Check the Enable Wallpaper Mode.
Select Playlist and check the Repeat Current Item.
Click Save button when done.
Restart your player.
Open and play any video that you would like to set as wallpaper.
Right click on the video and click on Wallpaper.

If you do not configure VLC Player to repeatedly play current media in loop, you can still do so after playing the video. Simply click on View then select Playlist. Highlight the video media content that is playing and click on Repeat One or Repeat All button as shown below to loop the video for non-stop video wallpaper.

The video must be encoded in a video format supported by VLC Player such as MPEG, MP4, WMV, AVI, FLV and etc. Or else you will need to convert the video clip to the supported format.